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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷4/03/2018 8:52:28 pm PDT

Jason Heap, who has a degree in theology from Oxford University, has been rejected a second time applying to be an atheist chaplain for the US Navy.

newsweek.com
(Goes to Newsweek magazine, with video and text)

Forty-five Republican representatives and twenty-two Republican senators sent letters to the Chief of Naval Operations (the top military officer in the US Navy) and the Secretary of the Navy (the civilian in charge of the Department of the Navy) urging his rejection. They claimed it would “fundamentally change the mission of the Chaplaincy Corps.” (Hint: no it wouldn’t.)

Mr. Heap had applied in 2013, but was rejected only a few days after the US Army accepted humanism as a religious position. He sued for discrimination from the Department of Defense.

The Secular Coalition for America noted that it was reprehensible for members of Congress to expend so much energy to insert themselves into the decision making processes of the US Navy.

That said, discrimination against atheists by conservatives and Christians is still alive and well in this country.

It is unclear whether he will seek a legal remedy to Republicans meddling in his accession as a chaplain.